Subj : Re: Trialing FMail/lnx status check-in
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sat Sep 09 2017 06:21 pm

Hi Paul,

On 2017-09-09 21:49:00, you wrote to me:

PQ> ... Anyway, I have a tall tale to tell...

PQ> This morning I modified GoldEd's config over to reading the FMail config
PQ> rather than an Areas.Bbs file exported from it, after I found & re-enabled
PQ> the GoldEd config switch to convert DOS paths to a Linux one in tosser
area
PQ> config files.  (It took a little fine-tuning but in the end it worked.)
PQ> So, after doing the right thing with the scan always FMail switch, I went
PQ> through the motions of another post test.  GoldEd created the echomail.jam
PQ> file like this...

PQ> --- 8< ---
PQ> C:\opt\ftn\fido\msgbase\fmail_help 867
PQ> --- 8< ---

PQ> Which is fine since the FMail envar translation will convert it back to a
PQ> Linux path.  (I say back because FMail initially sucked in the Areas.Bbs
PQ> file from CM II, _with_ Linux paths.  And they stuck!  FMail's area
manager
PQ> has Linux paths!)  So, running the sendmail.sh produced...

PQ> --- 8< ---
>> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  FMail-lnx32-2.1.0.18-Beta20170905 - Scan
>> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Echomail message, area FMAIL_HELP
>> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Update /opt/ftn/fido/outbound/02800180.hlo
>> 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Mail bundle already going from 3:640/1384 to
>> 3:640/384 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Netmail: 0,  Personal: 0,  Hudson: 0,
>> JAMbase: 1 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Msgbase net: 0, echo: 1, dup: 0,
>> bad: 0 09 Sep 17 20:56:14 FMAIL  Scan Active: 0.162 sec.
PQ> --- 8< ---

PQ> Neat, huh?

Yes, looks all good!

Bye, Wilfred.

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